Railway buffer-post



(No Model.)

,S. P. TRAPTO'N.

RAILWAY BUFFER POST. No. 363,438. Patented May 24, 1887.-

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

STEPHEN I. TRAFTON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

RAILWAY BUFFER-POST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363.438, dated May 24, 1887..

Applieativn filed March 10, I887.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I STEPHEN P. TRAFTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk andState of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Railway Buffer Posts, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification. My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in railway-buffer-posts; and it consists in providing the same with separable buffer-blocks so arranged that they may be adjusted to suit railway-cars which have their buffers above and separate from the draw-bar, as is usually the case with passenger-cars, and those which have the draw-bar act also as a buffer, as is usual with freight-ears. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side view of my invention, and Fig. 2 an end view of the same.

Similar letters refer to similar partsthrouglr h out.

A, B, and C are timbers framed and bolted together, as shown, the timber B and the lower ends of timbers A and 0 being in the earth.

D is a buffer-block having a plate of iron on its outer face and bolted securely to the post A.

E is a buffer-block having aplate of iron on its outer face, but detached from the post A, being held in position by the rods 13 and la, which, passing freely through the block D, are, by means of the cross-bar h and link g, attached to the lever or handle F. The handle F is pivoted at p, and has a slot at s.

L is a bolt having a head suited to pass through the slot 8 on the handle F, when the same is drawn down, and by passing a pin through the hole provided in the upper end secure the handle in that position.

Serial No. 9.30.567. (N0 model.)

B R represent rails, and G G sleepers.

XVhen the buffer-blocks D E are in the posltion shown in Figs. 1 and 2 they may be usedfor cars on which the buffer is situated above and separate from the draw-bar, the space below the block D being suificient to allow the draw-bar to pass freely, while the car-butfer will come in contact with the buffer-block D. By drawing the handle F down and securing it to the bolt L the block E is drawn upward until it touches, or nearly so, the block D, forming one broad buEer-block adapted for all cars on which the draw-bar acts as the carbuffer.

I am aware that previous to my invention railway buffer-posts have been made with timbers A, B, and C arranged as described. These I do'not claim.

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, ina railway buffer-post, of the movable block E, the stationary block D, the rods 2' k, cross-bar it, link and lever F, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination, in a railway bufler-post,

ofthe movable block E, the stationary block D, the rods 2' k, cross-bar h, link lever F, and post A, substantially as and for the purpose described. I

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 7th day of March, A. D. 1887.

STEPHEN P. TRAFTON.

Witnesses: VVILLIAM G. AMEs, CHAS. L. AIKEN. 

